LETTER: Give flying foxes somewhere else to call home

I HAVE read the report (regarding options for managing Noosa's Wallace Park flying fox colony) and support all recommendations apart from active dispersal, which appears to be problematic, expensive and not proven to alleviate the problem.

I would also like to suggest an option from outside the square to be researched and evaluated.

My suggestion is that Noosa Council allocates environment levy funds to use tagging to further investigate where the flying foxes go and why.

This could be done in collaboration with the research being undertaken by the Sunshine Coast Council.

Once sufficient information is gathered and collated, it could be used to investigate the planned planting of flying fox host trees on their flight paths to provide a more ideal roost than those which they currently use.

This would be a concerted long-term effort to continually increase host trees in areas away from human habitation which they could find on their current flight paths, hopefully luring them to choose to move their roosts.